Edward Everett Horton
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. His first starring role was in the comedy Too Much Business (1922), but he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in the drama Beggar on Horseback (1925). In the late 1920s, he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a stage-trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros.' early talkies, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929). Horton initially used his given name, Edward Horton, professionally. His father persuaded him to adopt his full name professionally, reasoning that other actors might be named Edward Horton, but only one named Edward Everett Horton. Horton soon cultivated his own special variation of the time-honored double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Horton's version, he would smile ingratiatingly and nod in agreement with what just happened; then, when realization set in, his facial features collapsed entirely into a sober, troubled mask. Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930s, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however, for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934, the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger - Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions.
Known for
Credits
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
as The Chief
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
as Mr. Witherspoon
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
as Mr. Dinckler
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
as Marquis De Loiselle
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
as Noble Sage
The Gang's All Here (1943)
as Peyton Potter
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
as Egbert Fitzgerald
Top Hat (1935)
as Horace Hardwick
Down to Earth (1947)
as Messenger 7013
Bachelor Daddy (1941)
as Joseph Smith
Uncertain Lady (1934)
as Elliot Crane
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
as Hudgins
The Business of Love (1925)
as Edward Burgess
The Merry Widow (1934)
as Ambassador Popoff
Design for Living (1933)
as Max Plunkett
In Caliente (1935)
as Harold Brandon
Holiday (1938)
as Nick Potter
Lost Horizon (1937)
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Shall We Dance (1937)
as Jeffrey Baird
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
as Francois
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
as Messenger 7013
Lady on a Train (1945)
as Mr. Haskell
Her Master's Voice (1936)
as Ned Farrar
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
as Mad Hatter
Cold Turkey (1971)
as Hiram C. Grayson
Forever and a Day (1943)
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
The Gang's All Here (1939)
as Treadwell
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Helen's Babies (1924)
as Uncle Harry
Angel (1937)
as Graham
Oh, Doctor (1937)
as Edward J. Billop
Her Primitive Man (1944)
as Orrin
The Front Page (1931)
as Bensinger
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
as J.B. Cruikshank
Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
as Dudley Dixon
Six Cylinder Love (1931)
as Monty Winston
Try and Get It (1924)
as Glenn Collins
Nobody's Fool (1936)
as Will Wright
His Night Out (1935)
as Homer B. Bitts
The Story of Mankind (1957)
as Sir Walter Raleigh
A Front Page Story (1922)
as Rodney Marvin
The Town Went Wild (1944)
as Everett Conway
The Aviator (1929)
as Robert Street
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
as McTavish
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Flapper Wives (1924)
as Vincent Platt
The Wonderful World of Trains (1960)
as Professor Hotbox
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
as Roger, the Valet
Cinderella Jones (1946)
as Keating
The Nut-Cracker (1926)
as Horatio Slipaway
Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
as Marcel Caron
The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)
as Bob Alten
That's Right – You're Wrong (1939)
as Tom Village
The Great Garrick (1937)
as Tubby
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
as Farnsworth
Danger – Love at Work (1937)
as Howard Rogers
Hitting a New High (1937)
as Lucius B. Blynn
Sunny (1941)
as Henry Bates
The Perils of Pauline (1967)
as Caspar Coleman
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
as Ruggles
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
as Horace Hunter
Summer Storm (1944)
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
Soldiers of the King (1933)
as Sebastian Marvello
Roar of the Dragon (1932)
as Busby
Brazil (1944)
as Everett St. John Everett
Let's Make a Million (1936)
as Harrison Gentry
La Bohème (1926)
as Benoit - Janitor
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Night Is Young (1935)
as Baron Szereny
I Married an Angel (1942)
as Peter
The Age for Love (1931)
as Horace Keats
Smarty (1934)
as Vernon
The Poor Rich (1934)
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
as Sir George Kelvin
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
San Diego I Love You (1944)
as Philip McCooley
The Terror (1928)
as Ferdinand Fane
All the King's Horses (1935)
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
as Oliver
It's a Boy (1934)
as Dudley Leake
The Way to Love (1933)
as Professor Gaston Bibi
Sing and Like It (1934)
as Adam Frink - Producer
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Mortimer Thompson
Weekend for Three (1941)
as Fred Stonebraker
You're the One (1941)
as Death Valley Joe Frink
Smart Woman (1931)
as Billy Ross
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956)
as Noah
The Whole Town's Talking (1926)
as Chester Binney
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
as Mr. Grattan
Call Again (1928)
as Eddie
The Great Junction Hotel (1931)
as The Groom
Scrambled Weddings (1928)
as Eddie Howe
Holiday (1930)
as Nick Potter
College Swing (1938)
as Hubert Dash
Success at Any Price (1934)
as Harry Fisher
Vacation Waves (1928)
as Eddie Davis
Taxi! Taxi! (1927)
as Peter Whitby
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
as Neil McRae
The Man in the Mirror (1936)
as Jeremy Dilke
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
as Eric
Three Men on a Horse (1957)
as Mr. Carver
Horse Shy (1928)
as Eddie Hamilton
The Singing Kid (1936)
as Davenport Rogers
Steppin' in Society (1945)
as Judge Avery Webster
Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
as Hiram Dilworthy
The Body Disappears (1941)
as Professor Shotesbury
To the Ladies (1924)
as Leonard Beebe
Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
as Self
Take the Heir (1930)
as Smithers
Find the King (1927)
as Edward Fairchild
$10 Raise (1935)
as Hubert T. Wilkins
Wide Open (1930)
as Simon Haldane
Too Much Business (1922)
as John Henry Jackson
Sonny Boy (1929)
as Crandall Thorpe
Easy to Love (1934)
as Eric
Wild Money (1937)
as P.E. Dodd
The Sap (1929)
as The Sap, Bill Small
2000 Years Later (1969)
as Evermore
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
as Paul Vernet
The Hottentot (1929)
as Sam Harrington
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake (1964)
as Narrator
Hearts Divided (1936)
as John
No Publicity (1927)
as Eddie Howard
Paris Honeymoon (1939)
as Ernest Figg
Dad's Choice (1928)
as Eddie
A Bedtime Story (1933)
as Victor Dubois
The Private Secretary (1935)
as Rev. Robert Spalding
Lonely Wives (1931)
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Poker Faces (1926)
as Jimmy Whitmore
Kiss Me Again (1931)
as Rene
The Ladder Jinx (1922)
as Arthur Barnes
Going Highbrow (1935)
as Augie Winterspoon
Once a Gentleman (1930)
as Oliver
Behind the Counter (1928)
as Eddie Baxter
Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946)
as Dr. Milo Edwards
One Got Fat (1963)
as Narrator (voice)
Ask Dad (1929)
as Dad
The Right Bed (—)
as Bobby Kent